5 Tips to Prevent Problems When Hosting Overnight Guests
Recently, we had a total of 12 people in our house overnight for multiple holiday celebrations. We moved to a new house this year and finally had the room to...
Alice Seuffert
5 Things to Do With Your Leftover Halloween Candy
Your kids came home with bags full of candy from Halloween parties and trick-or-treating. Now, what? You know you can’t keep it all, so what are your options? Here are...
Fall Makes Me Happy to Be A Mom
We emerge from winter desperate for sunshine and warm weather because we know the depth and duration of winter. We celebrate each and every day of summer, treasuring it and...
15 Signs You’re A Mom At the Minnesota State Fair
It’s Minnesota’s Great Get-Together: 12 days of food and fun that us moms wouldn’t miss for the world. We can’t decide if we like cheese curds or the Sweet Martha’s...
5 Things I Wish I Had Known About Child Development
{Disclosure: We are thrilled to partner with Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota to share helpful information about early childhood development for children ages zero to three. A host of additional early childhood...
The Number One Educational Tool Your Child Needs
80% of your child’s brain develops in the first three years. It is a critical time that will largely affect their adulthood. Not just their intelligence but who they...
I Don’t Know How to Parent in This World
{Photo Credit: Sarah Hudson Photography} The words were highlighted by a red border. I clicked on the article and fell down a rabbit hole, witness to the sick and twisted...
Have Fun Like A Kid This Summer
“You’re gonna have a blast, mom!” She had somehow convinced me to buy a slip and slide obstacle course. We returned home and when I tucked her in, all she...
Putdowns in Motherhood
My daughter started Kindergarten this year. It was a really hard transition for me, and I’m just not sure how life went by so fast that I have a kindergartener. I don’t...
Seasonal Heartache in Motherhood
The switching out of clothes and toys each season reminds me how fast this year and the ones before it have gone in my motherhood. When spring arrives in Minnesota,...
Unique Cooking and Fun at THAT Cooking School
{Disclosure: We are excited to partner with THAT Cooking School and share with you the unique cooking experiences this Twin Cities cooking school offers. To show us how much fun...
The Truth About the Mom I Am Right Now
The truth about the mom I am right now is that what looks perfectly cohesive on the outside is actually a pieced together map for my own survival in motherhood....
Black Cherry and Pomegranate Sangria
I grab my phone to check the weather and get distracted by all the other apps trying to vie for my attention. I say to myself out loud, “What was...
